Psychic
involvement in missing person cases receives a lot of
media coverage, television shows, books and movies often
paint a distorted picture of the psychic being able to
step into the middle of an investigation and offer miraculous
answers which result in a neat and tidy conclusion to
the entire affair. The truth is much less glamorous or
satisfying to our desire for justice. In fact the misconceptions
about psychics and missing person cases have led me to
write this article which describes an actual case that
I was involved in and will hopefully help to shed some
light on this often misrepresented subject.
In
2005 I was contacted by a former law enforcement officer
named Tom and was asked to assist in a missing persons
case involving a forty year woman. Tom was a 20 year veteran
of the Sheriff's Department in the southwest. After a
long and distinguished career as a police officer Tom
now spent his "retirement" as a private investigator.
One of his most frustrating cases was that of a housewife
that had been missing for almost a year. Tom had been
hired by the missing woman's sister to help find answers.
Unfortunately
those answers seemed impossible to find. The missing woman's
husband claimed that she had met another man and had run
off with him. The husband was questioned by local police
but without any evidence to controvert his statement there
was little that could be done. The missing woman's family
claimed that the husband was abusive and had beaten his
wife on several occasions as well as threatened to kill
her.
Tom
provided me with the same overview of the case that I
have provided here. He also provided a few photographs
of the exterior of the missing woman's home that were
taken about two months after she went missing. Tom also
sent a map showing the location of the house.
My
first impression after hearing about the missing woman
and looking at the photographs was that she was dead,
that the husband had killed her. The more that I focused
on the issue of her whereabouts the more that I became
convinced that this was the case. My second feeling about
the missing woman was that she never actually left the
house. She was killed in the house, dragged outside, left
outside for a period of a few days and then buried on
the property, somewhere very close to the house or perhaps
under it. I conveyed this information to Tom and he later
discovered that a concrete slab was poured in front of
the home's front steps two days after the woman went missing.
Tom and I are both convinced that the body of the missing
woman can be found buried directly under this concrete
slab.
Now
if this was a television show or a novel, the police would
show up with a warrant, dig up the slab and find the body
exactly where it was predicted to be and justice would
be served. The sad truth of the matter is that the law
enforcement officials involved in the case have no inclination
to pursue the subject. It's an even sadder truth that
there are still parts of the country where the word of
a man carries more weight than the disappearance of a
woman. I should also point out that the husband involved
in this case is the brother of a prominent local police
official, and I'm sure this has much to do with the local
law's reluctance to further investigate the case.
As
this case illustrates popular conceptions about a psychic's
involvement in missing person or murder investigations
are seldom accurate. Satisfactory conclusions to these
cases are rare, family members of the victims still seek
closure and justice is elusive if not extinct. As a psychic
I am able to validate the intuition of the investigators
and offer my own instinctual impressions of the cases.
I cannot guarantee that victims are found, I cannot guarantee
that perpetrators of crimes are held answerable to their
actions, I cannot step outside the boundaries of the law
and I cannot promise a climatic and satisfying end to
the story.
